So here we are in the dog days of summer and it seems that no one is working much. Oh sure, we might pretend we are working, we might even try and finish some projects, but is anything of substance getting done? No, not much.

The gypsy-like movie industry, which roams from place to place to find the best locations and best deals has taken a liking to Michigan in the past two years. That's thanks in part to generous tax incentives that give the entertainment industry a refundable business tax credit of up to 42% for production costs spent in the state.

Bourne again, and looking very much the worse for wear. In this era of waste recycling and creative cutbacks, it's only natural that TV should want to reuse the big-screen Bourne trilogy; the character did first see screen life in a 1988 ABC miniseries. Unfortunately, the genre is dead, and nothing about this dreadful, derivative, cynically silly two-parter (which concludes next Sunday) is likely to revive it.